The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar ... would also allow us to access the inner planets," Rémi Soummer of the Space Telescope Science Institute, who ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

A lot of planets are currently visible in the night sky. Leah Crane has some great field tips to help you spot them ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

If confirmed, says the group, these findings would "be the first case of a planet seen to be destroyed by ... of a new class of variable object in space.

The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan. Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun, would be the first to be ...